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Name: karla patricia heredia casta?eda
June 09, 2005 12:14 PM | Location:
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Yo lei este el Diario de Ana, hace apenas un a?o
(aunque algo habia escuchado antes).
Quede completamente ipnotizada por el, ella era tan sensible y ademas tenemos o mas bien lo escribio a la misma edad que yo tengo. La admiro tanto y no por lo que hubiese hecho sino por lo que era. Me hubiera encantado ser la amiga tan anhelada por ella, como ella lo es hoy para mi. Siento mucho si mis palabras no significan mucho pero es lo que siento. | Name: Matthew Gonzales
June 08, 2005 11:21 AM | Location:
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Reading through the responses and thoughts posted here I find it absolutely wonderful how sincere and how passionate they all are. It is as though Anne Frank's own spirit cuts through time and space and into the very core of ourselves and engenders a true and human response. As I am writing it seems as though nothing short of that would do to serve her memory, and though I have no connection with Anne Frank besides the connections of humanity which we all share, I thank all of you for giving your time and yourselves to her memory, and posting here. It is my sincere hope that we, all of us, accept her challenge and live life well. The eyes of her and so many great ones are upon us, may we make them and posterity proud. Here's to Anne Frank the Poet Laureate of a very terrible and very human time. | Name: kate
June 07, 2005 06:15 PM | Location:
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I myself am only 14 and I can relate to Anne. We read this book for English Class and, personally, I thought that it would be terrebly boring, but i opened to the first page and i couldn't stop turning the pages! She thought in deep, profound and meaningful ways that the teens my age today could never conjure up, words of hope and endurance and of loss and despair, so deep i can't begin to describe it. Were has that way of thinking gone? Where are the teens that we were supposed to be? It makes me sad, to think that this girl could think of such wondeful things and we can't. The majority of teens today think of clothes and boyfriends and girlfriends, as did Anne, but she thought of it in a deeper way. I've learned so much from her.
We watched the movie in around May and we were shoked and disgusted at what we saw: innocent women, children, and men being ripped away from each other and being, taken to horrible surroundings where everyone was for themselves...we cryed in our minds and we cryed physically, it was a deep and moving story, Anne was a deep and moving person. God Bless Anne Frank, she was-and is- a hero to the world. | Name: Ms. McGuire
June 07, 2005 05:33 PM | Location:
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Anne Frank was deep and sensitive. These are the same qualities I encourage in my students. I hope my students are able to see the beauty of her soul on the page. Anne faced unimaginable problems and managed to maintain her happiness. I hope as we all face our own problems (especially my students), we remember Anne. Her love of life in the face of great hardship is an inspiration. | Name: Tommy H
May 29, 2005 09:00 AM | Location:
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I am a foreign student from University of Hannover,Germany. It is really interesting for me to gain such knowledge, to know what was really happening during the NAZI dark time. Unfortunately, 60 years later after the war, i still can feel some discriminations in Germany,of course not so many as long time ago, that we would rather not to talk about it. By reading that book, i think, i know what kind of people the jews were facing at that moment. I couldn't imagine, if Anne were just still alive nowadays, she would also feel so disappointed as I'm feeling it now. Of course a better person than the others we are not, but why is it so difficult for some people to open their eyes as Anne tried to describe in her poetry "GIVE". | Name: Brooke
May 27, 2005 02:29 PM | Location:
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when i first read this anne frank book, i was so young i didnt really understand. but we lived in germany & i went & visited all the concentration camps & i got to see all the gas chambers & now i am reading the book again for a research paper i am doign & i am just remember all the things that i saw & it has had a great impact on me. i just got finished reading "give" and that is amazing that she even thinks like that at such a young age!!!i am very insipred but her | Name: Tony Ross
May 26, 2005 02:03 PM | Location:
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After the first few sentances of the book I had to close it and look at the young girl's picture on the front cover to remind myself that these were the words of a 13 year old. The degree of self realization and wisdom that this girl achieves is staggering. In my opinion, most adults do not develop such maturity throughout their lifetimes. "laziness appears to give pleasure but only work brings happiness" or "if everyone could go to bed at night and think about what they did good that day and what they did bad then try to improve themselves unconciously the next day" or "if you see something weak in yourself, why not train your character to overcome it?" The world would be a better place if people could understand Anne's precepts to life. This was an exceptional girl living in exceptional times, and it was truly heartbreaking that her remarkable potential was cut short. As I read, I wished I could reach into time and pull her out of that horror. To read about her final moments in Auchwitz and Bergen Belsen from the eyewitness tore me apart. A happy little energetic chatterbox full of potential forced to witness the death of her loved ones and the full range of human cruelty. It was overwhelming. When I read she cried seeing the line of young girls going to the gas chamber I cried myself.
Every one of the six million dead was as special to someone -if not more so- as Anne became to me. | Name: Ryan Raley
May 14, 2005 08:04 PM | Location:
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After reading The Diary of Anne Frank I finally realized what racism and the Holocaust really was all about. I just felt like I opened my eyes for the first time in my life and found out what everything was all about. I am in 8th grade and my teacher, Ms. Stringfield showed my class the black and white version and the colored version of The Diary of Anne Frank. Reading and watching are totally different things. Reading is mostly having a image in your head of what is happening in any kind of Literature, and reading is looking at something with your eyes and not your head. Watching is worse. Watching the Franks and the Vann Danns get taken away to concentration camps was really bizarre. It made several people in my class cry and wiep. When I watched that part in the movie, I thought my heart dropped into my stomach. I was really torn to pieces by that. When we watched Anne in the concentration camp that was full of disease, I thought I was going to just cry for hours, days, and even weeks. Reading the book had a very big impact on me. Anne Frank is such an inspiration to young teens across the world and I will never forget reading it. The best thing I like about Anne is her quote: " In spite of everything, I still think people are really good at heart." Thats what we might all love about her. Anne Frank is not a silly little girl who wrote in a diary during the Holocaust. She is way more than that. She is a hero to all. God Bless. ANNE FRANK. | Name: Greta M. Bello
May 12, 2005 05:38 PM | Location:
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I am a 45 year old Hispanic American Woman. I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan to be exact. When I was about 8 years old we were at that time living in Elizabeth, NJ. Our neighborhood was quite a mix of nationalities. We had an Italian Family in front of us, an Irish Family next to them, a Polish Family to our right, and we had a Jewish Family from Germany to our left. My father is originallly from Cuba, so we were the first Hispanic people on the block. One day while I was playing with my friends, our Jewish neighbor's old mother came out and told us to be quiet. We told her that we had nothing better to do and she suggested that we read. I then told her that I didn't like reading because nothing was interesting to me and it was a waste of my time. I would much rather be playing. This old woman went back into her house and came back outside and handed me what made me see things differently and made me want to become someone that can face anything thrown my way...the book was the english version of the Anne Frank Diary. I have held onto that book all these years and my children both girls have read it. When I see that life is throwing me a curve or my children are asking me why, and all seems lost, I find myself going back to this book, to read Anne's thoughts and realized that there is a better tomorrow and to never give up hope.
I am forever grateful to the old woman who gave me this book and I will guard it and pass it down my family line when my time comes. | Name: annonymous
May 12, 2005 05:09 PM | Location:
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I started to read about the Holocaust and the Nazi's when I was in 4th grade.I never really grasped the consept of the hatred. I thought it was absolutley horrible, I never thought that anyone could have been so cruel. One day I asked my Dad about the Nazi's and Hitler and he pulled out pictures of his grandmother and her brother he said, "That's Great Grandma Sophie and her brother. They killed him you know, The Nazi's took him out of their hosue and hung him in front of Sophie's window." I was in shock of what I heard and my father told me that was why Sophie never really talked about family or that day, and i didn't blame her. I can only imagine the pain people must have endured during those horrid times. And Anne was such a bright kid and she was my age when this happened. I read her diary entries and I feel chills through my body just knowing that she lived every second of this makes me sad. Her words almost bring me to tears and at the end, after all she has been through and after all the torture she still mangages to find a place in her heart to say that people are still good at heart.
It is a true shame that such a brillant mind was wasted due to one man's hatred. I am heartbroken by the stories and shattered by all photos. Anne is an inspiration to us all and I just wish that I could havce met her. Anne has truely touched my heart
-an 8th grader from Massachusetts |
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